Sublime

So how does one prevent war, if one rejects the globalist New World Order and the conservative peace-through-conquest? The answer is culture, but not in the way most people think. It was from New Right sweetheart Camille Paglia that I first learned about the importance of low culture, especially through her self-identification as a Warholian and

It is also almost impossible to expect large numbers of people to think in terms of principles, to understand the profound difference between “I don’t approve of this” and “this should be illegal.” At least, however, we have the First Amendment. Europe is an entirely other matter.

Barry: Right, my essay examining Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four as a thriller, which I wrote at NPR’s invitation. The blog post examined the way NPR edited the essay, and how NPR’s edits revealed that fundamentally, NPR is an establishment media player. Joe: Your editor was pissed. Barry: He was. NPR called up Random House and complained about my

We point at the decline of civilization into illiteracy, and ourselves forget the art of letter-writing, or of reading a text from Jean Paul as it must have been read in his time. We shudder at the brutalization of life, but lacking any objectively binding morality we are forced at every step into actions and words, into calculations that are by

But a more basic problem is that much hate speech is simply not perceived as such at the time. The history of racial depiction shows that our society has blithely consumed a shocking parade of Sambos, coons, sneaky Japanese, exotic Orientals, and indolent, napping Mexicans—images that society perceived at the time as amusing, cute, or, worse yet,